Urban Foraging - TurningTrooping Funnel Fungus into Faux Pulled Pork

The little bits of woodland alongside car parks and roads seldom get visited by people - let's take a look inside an urban woodland.
Also in this video, we'll pick Trooping Funnel Fungus and make it into a surprisingly good veggie substitute for pulled pork
To learn more about this fungus from an expert, check out this video:
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i think nowadays its quite the opposite, seeing a crazy talking to himself thinking "he probably is talking on the phone" ^_^

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I think they don't think something so "noble" and flattering... More something along the lines of "weirdo" or "crazy person/bum", albeit they can't even notice that he's talking to himself.

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@@ryanfuller4401 if that's super depressing to you, then I hope you dont watch any movies...

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@@GamingWithNikolas what does that mean? You realize the I was talking about him having that opinion, not the opinion itself right? I love a good movie, it's just kinda sad that he thinks people who see someone walking alone and talking immediate thought is "crazy person".

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In 2003 geotropa and a number of other Clitocybe species were split off into the new genus Infundibulicybe. Infundibulicybe geotropa - quite the mouthful just to pronounce!

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[@wishbone4038]

more foraging videos please, i love scam baiting, but my god, watching these make me wake up in the early morning to go foraging

[@brydekirkbrewer]

I found my first trooping funnels this week as well. Thanks for the recipe idea.

[@Anothersatellite]

You make mushrooms so appealing! You're obviously an excellent cook. Thanks again for the great content.

[@born_again_torinos]

I hate mushrooms. I don't eat any spores, molds or fungus. But you made that look good. Well done Mr. Shrimp.

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That's my frying pan, not yours! 😂

[@Dinki-Di]

Looks delicious. Chinese Hoisin sauce might also work well in your pulled pork recipe.

[@SpartanD63]

Here in the US, it's HIGHLY discouraged to forage for your own mushrooms, but your videos have made me want to pick up a book and give it a shot lol

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If you're in the PNW, it's definitely better! But yeah, a bit disappointing isn't it?

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It's discouraged because they want you to pay for it instead 💰

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@@marka4204 it's discouraged because Americans have trouble using their microwave properly. let alone foraging for their own food. Spartan's comment says it all. "pick up" a book and "give it a shot". "lol" Doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence in his willingness to invest the needed time.

[@Megan-ii4gf]

It's discouraged in the UK too. I only learned to forage them this year and I'm 25. Thank god I've got enough youth left in me to learn new things because my parents and grandparents somehow haven't had that since the day I was born.

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You, you lucky bas. That looked so good. Here in Australia East Coast we don't have much of that. 👍👍👌👌

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Saint Jimmy an Australian telling a British person he’s lucky... that’s funny aha

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I loved this video! I too use to go foraging, but never for mushrooms, because I do not feel confident in identifying them correctly. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!

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We've had a similar long autumn in the eastern us as well

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I would love to do this sometime. Thanks for the great idea!!!

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We just had our first hard frost in Essex this week, that's caused the leaves to drop fast now. We have had late/extended autumn's for a few years now, couple years back I was still getting strawberries in the first week of December.

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Did you hear the about the mushroom expert? He was outstanding in his field ;)

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Out Autumn here in Arkansas is identical to yours there. Great video. Thanks.

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That looks delicious!

[@98dizzard]

My other half hates mushrooms, almost verging on a phobia. Annoying, as I love mushrooms.

[@JamieFrew]

Same :-/ not allowed them in the house.

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That's interesting. I wonder what could be the reasons for that? I can understand not fancying the taste of mushrooms (or any other food for that matter), but going as far as not allowing them in the house or getting close to phobia seems very unusual.

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@@JamieFrew just hid them

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Valeria Vagapova I find them strangely alive... spores especially creep me out

[@allegrablack1583]

I squirmed when he ripped open the one at the start... love the taste but wild mushrooms make me 🤢🥴

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It looked really good!

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[@PuissantAlgernon]

Fantastic to see some urban foraging! I live in Bristol and have found all kinds of delicious treats in the local parks, especially during spring and late autumn. I'd love to know if there's anything much available during December - February.

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If you don't wash the mushrooms, what about dog pee?

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All the mushroom videos makes me crave mushroom pizza lol

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I like the foraging videos. The guy on the River Cottage is good as well.

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This was so interesting and informative! 💙

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I'm so glad you refer to a guide before eating foraged mushrooms, AS. I think your fans would be really upset if you got sick, or worse. Thanks for all the fascinating videos!

[@AtomicShrimp]

I'm incredibly cautious about identification of wild foods. There have been occasions in the past where I have put my harvest on the compost heap, because I wasn't 100% confident of the exact species

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I like the way how you are not too obsessed with cleanness. Everything is cooked therefore sterilized as well, so there won't be any problem.

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Yeah. I kniw how to observe decent food hygiene protocols, but obsessive germophobia is a disorder - I sympathise with anyone who suffers it, but I am not going out of my way to pander to it

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10:31 "I'll put links in the video description below to more about this fungus." _checks description_ Well …

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sorry - I forgot - thanks for spotting that - here's the link I meant to include: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5DYn6Ksfp6gask

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Thought I recognised the book, Roger Phillips was a brilliant, lovely man.

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Looks delicious 😋

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Looking forward to this one. :)

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18:57 is the beginning of the most perfect frying pan "etiquette" rebuke on all of KZbin.

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Wow pretty sure that Roger Phillip book was my 1st mushroom book as a kid. I bumped into a professor from the local uni who was out picking mushrooms for a lecture and because i took an interest in what he was doing he gave me and my mum this book so I could go picking.

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What an interesting lattice structure the Helvella has!

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Hi mate, I really adore this type of content you're creating. Is there any chance you could make a playlist to make these videos easier to access? Ive been binge watching your foraging videos for the past few days now and it a shame to see how few views some of the older videos have (not due to a lack of quality mind you) in comparison to the newer ones. Just an idea. Love the content and keep up the good work.

[@Triadii]

This is so cool how a meal could be made by digging around the roadside trees

[@mikedrop4421]

Love to see you try this recipe again with a "chicken of the woods" fungi like the ones you found on that log once. Id imagine its still there producing since typically fungi in logs last years and years. Well I guess the log might be gone but I hope not.

[@JCSPHOTOGRAPHER]

I walked passed this mushroom in a Norwegian Forrest one time. But never thought they were edible. They look like something from a fairy tale, because of it size.

[@ApexHerbivore]

Missed a trick there. I find with "pulled mushroom" recipes, the fibrousness of the stipe is actually beneficial to the resulting texture.

[@TheDoozintiger]

The only mushroom I have foraged and eaten was shaggy ink caps. They grow around my work, fried they up with butter andngalic. They were fantastic. But have been told do not drink alcohol with them.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Apparently shaggy inkcaps are OK with alcohol (although I am never sure enough to risk it) - it's common inkcaps that are dangerous in conjunction with alcohol, but apparently, common inkcaps are now classified as mildly toxic anyway

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ah at least i am reassured we use the same awesome Roger Phillips Mushrooms book ! hurrah !

[@yankeeoscarlimaoscar5293]

Wow! That make me wanna hunt the mushroom in the little wood near by!

[@MrAshprice]

Lovely video sir

[@priceyx123]

Loving the foraging content, pretty sure i passed by some of these a few weeks ago but there was only 3-4 not exactly a troop so i had some doubt. Whats nice is you take it the extra step and offer some interesting cooking ideas, imitation pork seems a bit of stretch though xD Would be fun to see what you could do with clouded agarics or blewits they seem to be alot more common (at least in the northwest)

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Amazingly interesting

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[@annbungay1247]

Very interesting. Love your style Mr Atomic. Would love for you to find some wood blewits and share. Thank you for showing.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I found some blewitts last week while I was out shooting the axe carving video - I didn't pick them as I'm not sure I like them - I ate them a couple of years back and I found them a bit slimy; also, the perfumed flavour is sort of weird

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"It's always Christmas somewhere in the world." -Atomic Shrimp

[@debbiehenri345]

It's even greener up here in Scotland. The Hazel bush that I can see from my window is still 80% green leaves, the yellow ones lost in yesterday's unnerving storm. We get a lot of Trooping Funnel Caps all around us, but I have never tried them yet (lots of other edibles here anyway, so it's a case of don't really need them. Plus the family reputation puts me off a bit, some nasty members of the Clitocybe bunch). But I will definitely give them a go next year, as I reckon I'll probably be fed up of Porcini by then (insane amount of these appeared this year - enough to see us until the first Summer fungi harvest). Very interesting recipes, thanks!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Trooping funnels are pretty good - and once you know them, really sort of unmistakable from any of the other species on account of their stature

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you are quite a fun guy, 😉

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I knew what rule 2 about that pan was gonna be.

[@misspeach3755]

Funghi absorb heavy metals quite well. Given all the traffic next to that strip of woodland, I'd probably not eat those mushrooms.

[@Miranda.T]

There's a fairy circle of mushrooms in 4:20.

[@misspeach3755]

In German this growth pattern translates to "witch circle". Interesting. :)

[@Miranda.T]

@@misspeach3755 Any way, magic is involved :)

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Its always Christmas somewhere in the world...lol

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This is way better than watching Jamie 👍👍👍

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I’m loving the linoleum floor

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Now I have to go cook me some food. Noodle soup today, I think :)

[@helenafranck7365]

It's 10 am in Belgium and now i am pondering where i can go to get me some mushrooms.... In summer. Thanks for that atomic shrimp 😅

[@basiccooking1818]

I think you should some time do a vid about how washing mushrooms affects the taste. I know it's common "knowledge" that you'll wash off the flavour when you wash them, but has anyone really properly tested this? For me this sounds slightly peculiar, given that the mushrooms are often washed by the rain for many hours or even days in the woods. And yet the flavour supposedly magically disappears when after picking you give them a quick wash! Something like a blind tasting of both unwashed and washed (or even soaked) mushrooms could be quite interesting -- even with ordinary button mushrooms!

[@PeeJay7290]

Again... Hungry now!

[@Andrewjohnmay1983]

Coincidentally I saw hundreds of these recently in Wiltshire. I thought they looked tasty!

[@greybunnie2003]

18:56 this is the kind of energy I need in my life XD

[@bbear2695]

i bet if you had some head country bbq sauce on that "pulled pork" itd be incredible.

[@tomhazzard538]

Reminds me of when I was foraging dandelion leaves for my guinea pig. ^_^

[@Radikitty]

I'm from rural Canada and honestly didn't know that "maintained" forests like the ones in your other foraging videos were something that existed. Every forest I've ever seen looks like that unmaintained strip and even worse, aside from the dirt trails for walking in parks and such. The undergrowth in most forests here is so bad you can't walk through them

[@ExileRika]

Fungi are weird yet very interesting organisms to me, honestly

[@philaphobic]

I'm cooking up some king oyster and shitake mushroom stoganoff over egg noodles as I watch this. 😋

[@tarmacdemon]

It's not you'r frying pan...... it's mine ......I like it .

[@Ada-on8yy]

I'm not sure if you have them in England, but maybe try and look for slippery jacks, they taste really nice!